§ Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many applications for a visa to visit family members in the UK were refused in each month since 1 October 2000. [13056]
§ Mr. BradshawStatistical information on the number of family visit applications refused on a monthly basis is only available from those posts that provide monthly statistical information (107 largest posts in 2000 and 110 in 2001). These figures are as follows:
Month Received Refused 2000 October 11,850 2,022 November 14,334 1,897 December 12,470 1,283 2001 January 13,612 2,276 February 16,182 1,775 March 20,811 4,205 April 22,486 3,978 May 32,143 5,177 June 32,168 5,610 July 36,866 5,870 August 28,820 5,129 September 15,737 3,225 Total 257,479 42,447 The remaining posts submit information on an annual basis, which is not broken down into months. To answer this question for all 165 posts we would have to ask those additional posts manually to extract the information requested. This could be done only at disproportionate cost.